For Danish Oil and Natural Gas (DONG) Energy, everything flipped once it made the switch. In 2015, DONG Energy made the largest loss of any company in Denmark’s history, the equivalent of $1.78bn today. It had been a bad year for the company’s oil and gas investments, resulting in a $1.4bn cost to disposing of assets in the North Sea. At that point, oil and gas was a small part of the company’s business, as it had steadily moved toward wind energy over years. The next year, the firm decided to finally…
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Crude’s crash sees college grads giving up on oil and gas careers
Hanzelle Kleeman was all set to head home to Houston until the oil crash upended her plans for the summer — and potentially, for her entire career. Kleeman, a 20-year-old mechanical-engineering major, had an internship lined up in the drilling group of a publicly traded crude producer. She was hoping it would translate into a full-time job once she graduates from the Colorado School of Mines next year. But in March, with oil prices plunging, she was told the offer had been rescinded due to “market conditions.” As the pandemic…
Read MoreGoing In Circles
The cabinet’s decision for the state to take over circular debt is both unsurprising and necessary. With international lending agencies making this a condition for Pakistan in its bid to restructure the economy, we all knew this was coming; it was only a matter of when. Rs800 billion is now owed and a state bailout is urgently needed, but what comes next is still shrouded in mystery. All along the supply chain, payments stand unpaid, from the government to the distribution and power production companies, all the way to the…
Read MoreACWA Power Company To Invest $ 4 Bln In RE Sector
ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 7th May, 2020 ) :Saudi Arabia power producing company ‘ACWA Power’ will invest around $ four billion in country’s renewable energy (RE) sector. The investment would be made mainly in Balochistan by set up solar power plants, sources told APP here. They said generation of cheap electricity utilizing indigenous renewable energy resources including wind, solar, waste to energy biomass was amongst the top priorities of the government. Alternative Energy Development board (AEDB) had also been pursuing the development of alternative and…
Read MoreDNO Completes Baeshiqa Testing, Announces Budget Cuts
AE-linked Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO ASA, has announced completion of testing and appraisal of the Baeshiqa-2 exploration well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The testing has proven oil and gas in three separate Triassic aged reservoirs, Kurra China A, B and C, with testing also carried out on shallower Jurassic-aged reservoirs. Evaluation of the test results will determine next steps towards further appraisal and assessment of commerciality. Spudding of the new Zartik-1 well, 15 km. from Baeshiqa, targeting Jurassic reservoirs, is scheduled for 15th May. DNO acquired…
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